Arkansas

Walmart Confirms Lease of Coit/Arapaho Site, Plans to Have Store Open by Fall 2014

At an ungodly hour this morning (2:38 a.m.), a member of the new but active "Stop Walmart Spanish Village" Facebook group posted the lease, signed back in November, giving the Arkansas-based retail giant rights to the northwest corner of Coit and Arapaho roads for at least 20 and as many as 70 years ... More >>

West of Memphis, a New Doc on an Old Case, Finally Sets Free the West Memphis Three

The Top Ten North Texas Blues Albums

See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #100-80 See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #79-60 Alex Moore, Alex Moore Barrelhouse pianist "Whistling" Alex Moore spent all of his life in Dallas, recording for Columbia in 1929, Decca in 1937, and RPM/Kent in 1951. During the '60s blues reviv ... More >>

Mike Huckabee Calls for Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day

Citing "intolerant bigotry from the left," former Arkansas governor and candidate in the 2008 republican presidential primaries, Mike Huckabee, has called for a "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" on August 1. Last week we reported on Chick-fil-A's president Dan Cathy's interview where he condemned sam ... More >>

Texas Has Worst Health Care in Nation, Report Says. But What Does the Government Know?

Texas Republicans have been complaining loudly since the Supreme Court decided that the Affordable Care Act passed constitutional muster. The law is a huge overreach by the federal government, it's a "stomach-punch" to the economy, Obama is a socialist, etc. etc. There's even quite serious talk abou ... More >>

Canadian Comedy Plus Duct Tape Equals Funny

Smoke Chef Tim Byres on His New Place for Chicken, the Importance of Nostalgia and a Fried Chicken Roadtrip

After recently opening the new bar The Foundry, Chef Tim Byres is trying to finish out a family-style casual fried-chicken joint called Chicken Scratch, both of which are just around the bend from Smoke in north Oak Cliff. In the interview that follows, we discuss it all, including the best fried ch ... More >>

Ugly Side of The Lion

How one band fell from top to bottom and is resurrecting its sound.

High Times for Tailgaters This Weekend

​ This weekend is working out to be a tailgating wonderland. With highs forecast to be in the mid-80s and clear skies, it's busy times for lawn chairs, grills and coolers. Travel trailers for the A&M and Arkansas game began arriving Thursday night. Collins and Interstate 30 in Arlington will serve ... More >>

Local Prophet Explains Those Dead Birds

​A good Friend of Unfair Park sends along a video presently making the rounds in which Red Oak's own Cindy Jacobs, self-proclaimed "respected prophet," says there's a very good explanation for why those 5,000 birds died in Arkansas on New Year's Eve. And, no, it had nothing to do with a loud noise ... More >>

The Lord God Bird

The Tipping Point: Is it Un-American,
Or are Some of Us Just Cheap SOBs?

​I recently traveled with a contingent of Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference attendees to Archer City, where we were supposed to meet with Larry McMurtry and tour his family's ranch before speeding back to cocktail hour in Grapevine. But McMurtry was laid up with an aching eye, and our bus ... More >>

Dig, Mom, Dig

Missions: Beatable

Arkansas Bo Is The Best Unemployed Rapper In Dallas

You Can Own a Small Piece of the Statler

​A good, but clearly very cheap, Friend of Unfair Park who shares my affection for the old Statler Hilton hotel downtown sends word: An Arkansas eBay'er is looking to offload some coffee creamers and a sugar bowl that came out of that hotel way back when. Says the seller: "The two creamers are mar ... More >>

DC9 Live at El Sibil, Ep. 3: Jacob Metcalf

YouTube? Sure, right here. Regular viewers will catch a few familiar faces in this week's video from El Sibil -- folks from The Beaten Sea and The Fox and the Bird are among the DC9 in Space vets who join in the act. They're all there in support of Jacob Metcalf, the Arkansas native whose songs take ... More >>

Aggie Fans are Definitely Sad, Apparently Cheap

​Got a buddy who is Cowboys' season-ticket holder. One of the privileges is getting first dibs at all the events - not just NFL games - at the sparking, billion-dollar joint. So he buys four tickets on the 50 to last month's Oklahoma-BYU game. Cost him $1,200, and he sells them for $2,40 ... More >>

Hophead: First Shot At Homebrew

​There's something enticing and romantic about the idea of making one's own beer right at home. Along with home wine making (yechh!) and the few in Kentucky--and elsewhere--who manage home spirits, it's the last frontier of legal DIY intoxicants.Set up a meth lab in your trailer and ... well, you' ... More >>

Travelin' Ballers

The RoughRiders take on Arkansas' best

Treasure Hunt

See some glittering rarities at the Heard

Pickin' Circle

The Rap Up: The Beat Behind Damaged Good$

Diggin' the Dirt

See, It Does Pay to Visit Arkansas

Dallas' Next Big Business Opportunity: Regional Hub for Meth Distribution

Three Dots and a Cloud Of Dust …

Darren McFadden to Dallas? Believe It.

Holy Holly! Actually Good Christmas CDs

Still Too Premature to Talk A&M, Arkansas in Arlington. Or Is It?

Sling Song

Billy Bob sings at the HOB

Speaking in Tongues

Jokes for the Def

Comedy Jam hopefuls compete

Church of the Snake, Assacre, Chief Death Rage, Eat Avery's Bones

Saturday, October 14, at House of Tinnitus, Denton

Vision Quest

The Theater Fire gets screened

Tia's Tex-Nixed

Brand Oriented

Go west for fashion in Fort Worth

Ask, and Ye Shall Receive a Check for Fraud

Have You No Pride?

Last Call

The career of Dallas sportswriter Jim Dent was skyrocketing, then booze and bad behavior caused a hard landing

Best Fried Chicken

Bubba's Cooks Country

Out of This World

Hip Pocket and Pocket Sandwich have more in common than their names

The Gossip

June 16

Southern Comfort

The Gossip returns to the land of Dollar Store culture

The Phantom Menace

In 1946, a serial killer haunted sleepy Texarkana, stalking his victims under the cover of night. Investigators wonder if he died decades later in a Dallas rest home--or simply disappeared.

Rock and a Hard Place

Music can free your soul, but can it spring the West Memphis Three?

Black like him

Despite the Starr report's dirty details, Paula Jones' case against the nation's "first black president" hinges as much on race as on sex

Divide and conquer

Robbie Robertson throws history into the bonfire

The Jones Boys

How a troupe of button-down Dallas lawyers breathed life into Jones vs. Clinton and found themselves the nation's most unlikely feminist heroes

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX